reference / 17 links / 5 shelves
Everything a build season makes you look up.
The official docs, the software your code depends on, the vendors you order from, and the two forums where the answers actually are.
the wpilib docs answer most of it
Five shelves, filed the way a pit is.
Each shelf holds the links for one job, so the one you want is where you would reach for it. Every link leaves this site and opens in a new tab.
shelf 01 / official-first
3links
Official FIRST
The manual, season materials, and game tools straight from FIRST.
shelf 02 / software-programming
5links
Software & Programming
WPILib and the vision, path, and trajectory tools your code leans on.
shelf 03 / cad-design
2links
CAD & Design
Model the robot before you cut metal. Free CAD, built for FRC.
shelf 04 / hardware-vendors
4links
Hardware & Vendors
Where the motors, gearboxes, and structure come from.
shelf 05 / community-data
3links
Community & Data
Forums and match data, the collective brain of the FRC world.
What the lessons are built on.
Every guide here is written from published references rather than from memory. These are them, department by department, so you can go and check the original. Long lists are trimmed to the first 6, and the figure beside each department is the full count.
168cited sources
11departments
suggestion slip
Missing something worth linking.
If a doc, a tool or a forum thread belongs on one of these shelves, say so. Naming the shelf is what turns a suggestion into a to-do.
a link that saved you an hour is worth sending